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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 1:19 pm Post subject:

I've often wondered? Does it make sense to ink a 20 deal with a team? If the team doesn't perform I think viewers would decrease. In that the case wouldn't the number of subscribers decrease too?_________________Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

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Last edited by jodeke on Thu Nov 02, 2017 3:31 pm; edited 2 times in total

The deal is somewhat unique in that Spectrum is a media distributor who would normally pay subscriber fees to a media provider like Fox, who licensed broadcast rights from teams. Spectrum bypassed the middle man and bought the broadcast rights themselves and setup their own sports channel becoming both a distributor and a provider._________________"Suck it up. Don't be a baby. Do your job." - Kobe Bryant

In Houston, it’s Root Sports for the Astros, Rockets, and Dynamo. It started off as something else, but it turned out to be quite a fiasco. Some cable providers still don’t carry it. The original company ended up in bankruptcy.

I think you need a market the size of LA or NYC to make something like that viable. It’s just going to get more complicated with cord cutters.